by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Historical Fiction
by Karen Harper NAL, $15.00, 376 pages Many books have been written about the era of King Henry VIII and his six wives – some from his point of view, and many others from that of his wives and mistresses. Karen Harper’s novel, The Queen’s Governess, takes a different...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Science Fiction
by Jim Butcher ROC, $27.95, 482 pages When readers last saw Harry Dresden, he was shot and dead in the water – literally. Ghost Story picks up six months after the end of the previous novel when Harry is given the chance to come back to Chicago and help solve his own...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Vanessa Diffenbaugh Ballantine Books, $25.00, 322 pages In The Language of Flowers Deffenbaugh weaves a sumptuous tale of Victoria, an 18 year old foster child that grew up in 32 different homes. Upon her emancipation, she lives in a city park where she grows a...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Romance
by Gena Showalter Harlequin, $7.99, 426 pages The Darkest Surrender is the latest installment in Gena Showalter’s amazing Lords of the Underworld series. In The Darkest Surrender we follow Strider the keeper of Defeat and Kaia the Disappointment, a harpy bent on...
by Site Owner | Nov 3, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, History
Edited by Katherine B. Darmer and Richard D. Fybel Prometheus Books, $21.00, 478 pages In 100 years, when historians are trying to decipher the incomparable mess that the American response to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 created, they will need books like...
